6. WB tells govt to stop funding devolved subjects
• The World Bank has suggested a number of measures to address Pakistan`s chronic fiscal deficits, including a cut to the funding of projects that now fell within the provinces`domain.
• Briefing journalists, the World Bank`s senior macroeconomist Derek Chen said the federal government was still spending around Rs328bn every year on federal ministries devolved to the provinces around15yearsago.
• `This is a duplication of task,` he said, adding that the devolution process should have been completed at the earliest.
• Let the provinces invest and develop health, sports, education and similar other areas so that the federal government could take care of its core responsibilities, Mr Chen added
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7. Indian opposition decries `purging` of schoolbook
• Indian opposition parties on Wednesday condemned the removal from some schoolbooks of references to how independence hero Mahatma Gandhi`s pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity angered some Hindu extremists and led to his assassination.
• The new edition of a political science book for 17-18 year olds, published by the autonomous National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), also removed a reference to a year-long ban on the Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) after Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu hardliner, Nathuram Godse.
• The RSS is the ideological parent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). NCERT`s director said the changes had been recommended by an expert committee
8. Russia detains Ukrainian pilot
• Russia`s FSB security service said on April 6, 2023 it detained a pilot of a Ukrainian light aircraft that crashed in the southern Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, Russian state media said.
• `The aircraft, for unknown reasons, crashed near the settlement of Butovsk in Bryansk region. The pilot (a citizen of Ukraine), who tried to escape to Ukrainian territory, was detained by a border patrol,` the FSB was quoted as saying by state news agency RIA Novosti
9. When in Beijing Macron warns against shunning China
• French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe must resist reducing trade and diplomatic ties with China as he began a state visit on April 5, 2023, seeking to refute any sense there was an `inescapable spiral` of tension between Beijing and the West.
• Macron said maintaining dialogue with China was key given its close relations with Russia, which is waging a war in Ukraine. Asked about Western concerns Beijing might be considering sending arms to Moscow, Macron said any nation that did so would be complicit in a breach of international law.
• `China`s interest isn`t to have a lasting war,` Macron said
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10. Aleksander Ceferin re-elected UEFA president until 2027
• Aleksander Ceferin was re-elected unopposed for a third term of four years as president of UEFA at a meeting of European football`s governing body in Lisbon on April 5, 2023.
• The 55-year-old Slovenian lawyer, first elected in 2016 following the downfall of Frenchman Michel Platini, will now remain in the role until 2027.
• `I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your unanimous support. It really means a lot to me,` Ceferin told delegates at the UEFA Congress in the Portuguese capital. `It is a great honour but mainly it is a great, great responsibility, towards you and towards football.` The UEFA Congress came just a few weeks after Gianni Infantino was re-elected as president of the sport`s world governing body FIFA, also unopposed
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